College Students: Top 10 Reasons to Use MySudo This Year
Summer’s over and school’s about to start. These are exciting days for College students, especially Freshmen. College days can be fun and full, with some worries along the way. One thing we don’t want you to worry about is your data privacy and cybersafety while you get busy earning your diploma or degree. MySudo is the world’s only […]
Why do I Need MySudo?
MySudo stops businesses from gathering your data and trading it as currency in the thriving digital marketplace. Businesses are using your data to tailor ads directly to you and drive your dollars to their pockets. Even your bank can be in on it. MySudo also cuts data brokers off at the knees and finally returns control of your personal data to you. MySudo stops […]
Peloton Leak Points to Another Perfect Use for MySudo: At-Home Fitness Apps
MySudo use cases are limited only by your imagination. Some of them are obvious, like shopping, travel, and online dating. Others are less obvious, like house hunting, teaching and even foster parenting (how cool is that?). Peloton’s recent API bug pointed us to another perfect use for MySudo: at-home fitness apps. The Peloton API vulnerability meant the age, gender, city, weight, workout statistics and date of birth […]
You Don’t Need Guest Checkouts When You Shop With MySudo
Do you use the guest checkout option when you buy online because you’re worried about giving out your personal data? A new UK study by Empathy.co found 22 percent (roughly 1 in 4) of 4,000 British shoppers surveyed use guest checkouts because they don’t trust retailers with their personal data and want more control. A March 2020 US survey […]
10 Tips for Keeping Kids Safe Online
Just as adults are spending more time online, so are children and young people. Now more than ever given COVID-19, they’re online to connect with friends, learn and be entertained. And just as it is for adults, sharing personal information online can be risky for kids. Since kids can’t always see the consequence of their actions, it’s important that parents, caregivers and […]
MySudo for Teachers
MySudo is a great privacy tool for teachers everywhere. Open communication with students & their parents is crucial to student success, but giving out your personal phone number to do so can come with some risks. Mitigate that risk with MySudo.
Shocked or Not? Your Bank Is Selling Your Personal Data
Your bank is selling your personal information. While the data is “anonymized” we recently revealed it’s scarily simple to re-identify subjects in data sets. So what gives? What information do your banks use, share and sell, and what are the privacy and cybersafety risks to you? What are banks doing? Banks have joined the masters of surveillance capitalism such as Google and Facebook in profiting from yourpersonal […]
‘Tis the Season: Beware These 12 Holiday Scams’
Happy holidays seem more important than ever this year. So it’s important not to fall for holiday scams. Most holiday scams are everyday scams dressed up for the season when we’re too busy to notice. Our best advice is to take care, and if something doesn’t feel right or seems too good to be true, […]
How to Stay Safe and Private Online During COVID-19
Statistically, you’re a sitting duck for cyberattack during COVID-19. ZDNet research reports since the start of the pandemic: a 40% increase in unsecured remote desktop computers brute force attacks on remote desktops increasing by 400% during March and April 2020 email scams skyrocketing by 667% in March 2020 90% of the nearly 5 billion COVID-19 related web pages being […]
What Should I Do If I’ve Been Caught In a Data Breach?
Living in a highly connected digital world has its risks. Having your personal information caught up in a data breach is a big one. We talked about data breaches here , and these are the takeaways: A data breach is a security event where highly sensitive, confidential or protected information is accessed or disclosed without permission or is lost. Organizations, governments and individuals […]
What is a Data Breach?
You’ve seen the steady stream of headlines reporting massive data breaches. Now let’s go inside the concept of a data breach to see what’s really going on. A data breach is a security event where highly sensitive, confidential or protected information is accessed or disclosed without permission or is lost. Organizations, governments and individuals can be victims […]
Stay Safe When You Date, With MySudo
We know dating isn’t all heart emojis and chocolates. There are real risks along with the rewards. Personal safety is one of those risks, whether you meet on a dating app or in person. Dating apps and websites are a convenient way to meet new people, particularly as we live through COVID-19 restrictions, but as […]
14 Real-Life Examples of Personal Data You Definitely Want To Keep Private (Plus, How to Do It)
Apple’s new ‘Over sharing’ ads have everyone thinking about the type of personal information we freely share on our devices and the shocking reality of it being publicly exposed. The scenes are intentionally cringeworthy and ridiculously ‘TMI’. There are people loud-hailing their credit card information, telling strangers their logins, announcing purchases of pregnancy tests and searches for divorce […]
How Your Sudo Profiles Are Like Your ‘Stunt Doubles’
Every great movie star has a stunt double, right? You know, the other guy they send in when the risks are real and the stakes are high? Stunt doubles take the fall so the real star doesn’t have to. So here’s the thing: when you use the MySudo app, the world’s only all-in-one privacy solution, you get […]
Concerned Why We Ask for Your Credit Card When Setting Up MySudo Virtual Cards? Read this.
When you create a MySudo virtual card, we will ask you for a funding source for that card. Right now, we accept credit and debit cards as a funding source (we are planning additional funding source options to release to you soon). So, you might ask: Why does a digital privacy company want me to enter […]